I want to find something else, unknowable, some place that's not on the map. A real adventure.

People die', she says. 'People tear down houses. But furniture, fine, beautiful furniture, it just goes on and on, surviving everything.' She says, 'Armoires are the cockroaches of our culture.

My whole life is about forgetting. It's my most valuable job skill.

Cults make people sing so hard for so long - because it over-oxygenates the blood and sets them up to faint.

Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.

He was assaulting the world by assaulting himself.

Some stories, you use up. Others use you up.